Side job

We’ve been swimming in numbers for days now, fact-checking all sorts of statistics about how and why and where Americans give their money. Frankly, my brain burns.

Sometimes, when I’m flashing back to Calc II, I take a break and give some rice.

You can, too. It's at Freerice, this nifty Web game that’s raising money for the United Nations World Food Program. (Jon Gordon’s Future Tense featured it this week.) The UN says the site has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 hungry people around the world for one day.

And here’s the thing – the way you contribute money is by taking a vocab quiz. You see a word; you guess what it means. If you’re right, a random slew of advertisers will donate money to the UN. Comes out to ten grains of rice per word.

It’s like the GRE, but fun. You get smarter, the UN gets richer, and hungry people get rice.

Course, far as my boss knows, I’m fact-checking.

Comments (3)

Hey Julie, I attended the show last night and I was wondering if you guys could post all the statistics that were thrown out during the show. I want to talk to people about the show and I want to get the stistics correct.